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Kabul (Kābul), also spelled Cabool, Caubul, Kabol, or Cabul, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It is also the capital of Kabul Province, located in the eastern section of Afghanistan. According to a 2012 estimate, the population of the city was around 3,289,000, which includes Tajiks, Pashtuns, Hazaras and smaller numbers of Afghans belonging to other ethnic groups. It is the 64th largest - Source: Wikipedia

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Afghan security personnel arrive at the site of an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Spokesman for Afghanistan's Vice President Amrulleh Saleh said a bomb in the Afghan capital that killed a few civilians Wednesday was a failed assassination attempt against Saleh. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Visitors enjoy a ride at Kabul City Park in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, July 24, 2020. Desperate for relief from endless war combined with the pandemic, Afghans are rushing back to public recreation as the government eases the lockdown it imposed to fight coronavirus. Since mid-July, Afghans can once again frequent parks, swimming pools and gyms, shop in malls and celebrate marriages in wedding halls. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) ** FILE **

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Afghans remove mud from inside their house after a mudslide in Parwan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. The death toll from heavy flooding in northern and eastern Afghanistan rose to at least 150 on Thursday, with scores more injured as rescue crews searched for survivors beneath the mud and rubble of collapsed houses, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Afghan security personnel inspect site of a roadside bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

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Police inspect the site of a rocket attack in the city of Kabul during Independence Day celebrations at the Defense Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, Several mortar shells slammed into various part of Kabul on Tuesday morning as Afghans marked their country's Independence Day amid new uncertainties over the start of talks between the Taliban and the Kabul government. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani sings the national anthem after laying flowers on the Independence Minaret monument during the Independence Day celebrations at the Defense Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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FILE - In this May 28, 2019 file photo, Suhail Shaheen, spokesman for the Taliban's political office in Doha, speaks to the media in Moscow, Russia. The Taliban are warning the Afghan government against any attacks on Taliban members who are to be freed from prison in the final prisoner release under a U.S.-Taliban deal. Shaheen said Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, that such attacks would jeopardize peace talks between the Taliban and the Kabul political leadership. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

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Delegate poses for photograph on the second day of the Afghan Loya Jirga meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. The traditional council opened Friday in the Afghan capital to decide the release of a final 400 Taliban - the final hurdle to the start of negotiations between Kabul's leadership and the Taliban in keeping with a peace deal the United States signed with the insurgent movement in February. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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Afghan security personnel gather near a prison after an attack in the city of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. An Islamic State group attack on the prison in eastern Afghanistan holding hundreds of its members raged on Monday after killing people in fighting overnight, a local official said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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FILE - In this March 9, 2020 file photo, Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad attends the inauguration ceremony for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Khalilzad is heading back to the region in efforts to jump-start negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban. The trip comes as the Taliban offered a conciliatory message ahead of major Muslim holiday. The Taliban leader says they do not seek to monopolize power in a future political makeup of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

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Afghan soldiers stand amid the aftermath of Monday's attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 2, 2019. The Taliban set off a powerful bomb in downtown Kabul on Monday, killing a several people and wounding more than a hundred, and sending a cloud of smoke billowing over the Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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